Would you? 25 January 2020 at 5:42PM in Marriage, relationships & families 27 replies 2.5K views

suejb2

https://coffincompany.co.uk/wicker-coffins/wicker-willow-bamboo-stretcher-shroud?sort=p.price&order=ASC

Just spent the past hour down the rabbit hole of coffins! Never waste my Saturday afternoons.
I genuinely like the idea of a cardboard, wicker or alternative coffin but this, in my opinion, is a tad “out there”

MX5huggy

The one you’ve linked to is a bit out there being basically aN open wicker stretcher with a bed sheet! The other wicker options are very fine and much better than a chipboard box made to look like a piece of Victorian furniture.

JGB1955

A bit too OTT for my liking. My mother ended up on her last journey in (what I perceived as) a picnic basket. 10 years on, and picnic baskets have evolved.....

Pollycat

I think that is pretty gross.
I'm quite unconventional but I wouldn't like to subject people attending my funeral (cremation) to that.

Savvy_Sue

Not even going to look. Did look at cardboard and wicker coffins when parents died, but they were not the cheapest, and they'd have been revolving in anything but ...

Purplepineapple

Yes! I've already decided I want a shroud made of felt. No embalming. No hearse etc. I want to be burried in a burial meadow.

onwards&upwards

I’d be happy to be composted, no coffin required, maybe a sheet for the sake of funeral attenders!

donnac2558

I have just gone through signing paperwork and donating my body to research. Training doctors and at the end they will cemate which I picked or bury your remeans. But I doubt after three years not much left to despose of.

Robisere

Purplepineapple wrote: »

Yes! I've already decided I want a shroud made of felt. No embalming. No hearse etc. I want to be burried in a burial meadow.

Me too, but no coffin, just a plain shroud, in a Green Burial ground, with a tree planted over me. I do not believe in any deity or religion and am a member of the Humanist Association. I have asked for a Humanist Celebrant to take the service. No hymns, my choice of music, some of which would probably apall a certain type of person. Wife wants the same service but a cremation and ashes scattered over our favourite place. I want to be recycled by bugs and soil, become part of the Earth. When the Sun finally goes Nova, my atoms and everything else will be recycled. The Ultimate renewal. Anyone who does not like the idea, can stay away from my celebration. The family are all OK with it, which is all that matters.

Nothing about anyone's funeral wishes should be disgusting to anyone else. They don't have to witness it. Death is a part of life, just as birth is.

suejb2

donnac2558 wrote: »

I have just gone through signing paperwork and donating my body to research. Training doctors and at the end they will cemate which I picked or bury your remeans. But I doubt after three years not much left to despose of.

Every day is a school day, I did not know ‘they’ have your body for three years. Interesting.

elsien

At 220 quid, I'd at least like a lid as part of the deal. Otherwise knock together a couple of pallets, dig out a sheet and you could DIY it for under a tenner.

Parent fancies a cardboard coffin but only if it's got decent handles as she's concerned about falling through otherwise.